Business Plan Overview
Will this post help you with the business side of writing?
Despite my oh-so-limited time to spend on anything writing related, I am treating my writing as a business. I’ve had a business plan from the beginning. Not a professional, capture-venture-capital kind of business plan, but a comprehensive guide to my own efforts to be successful. It’s an ever-evolving document as I flesh out details.
This is the first in a series of posts about my business plan. Hope it helps!
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Scene Planning
As I learn more and more about the craft of writing, I find myself laying out more and more elements for a scene: structure, story elements, plot elements, emotion beats, even Kowal’s yes-but and no-and strategy she mentions on Writing Excuses (Jill Williamson describes it here).
To wrap my brain around it, I turned to Scrivener and fell in love, yet over time it felt clunky and awkward. I waited for Scrivener 3 for Windows with greedy anticipation. And waited and waited…
Continue readingSalvage: Emmett’s Function
In the first episode of Salvage we are introduced to Emmett. He’s the helmsman and (possible spoiler) assistant medic onboard the long-haul transport, Brio’s Hope.
In the book his function is to tell the parts of the story Kaylah cannot, and to illustrate not only the “coolness” of space but, more critically to the story, how dangerous space travel is.
This plot thread involving the ship through the eyes of Emmett has been on of the most frustrating to nail down. Too much of Emmett’s story lessens the emphasis of the dangers of space travel. Too little impact, and you won’t care much about Emmett.
I’m trying to work him as a foil, too, if possible, in contrast to Kaylah’s lack of power, lack of control, and fearfulness. There’s also a contrast between Emmett’s warmth and the doctor’s coldness.
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“Go back?” he thought. “No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!” So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit or There and Back Again
Recent Stories
I usually catch at least two good stories over a week’s time. With a virus that knocked me out for most of last week, I had plenty of time (but limited mental stamina) to read or watch a show.
Some favorites:
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Like a Tortoise, This Journey
In this fast-paced world, with so many demands on my time, sometimes my writing time — what little I have — is reduced to a smaller sliver.
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Dancing on the Edge of the Roof
The novel, Dancing on the Edge of the Roof by Sheila Williams, is a good read. It starts out with characters and setting seemingly stereotypical, then steps the reader into unexpected depths of theme, character, and setting.